Sri Lanka Post Code Directory

It seems most of the Sri Lankans are not well aware and not using the Post-Code system effectively... So, get used to it and practice it when you send the next letter by post. You may be thinking we have our E-mails... but remember its only for some of us only... Majority of the Sri Lankans are not using email yet, but its catching up... 

Anyway we have the system So, why not use it...

The Sri Lanka Post has  introduced the Post-Code system which is a numerical identification of Post Offices by a Code consisting of five digits.

In Sri Lanka there are over 2,000 mail delivery offices spread around the country and some are in the remotest villages with almost similar names. The Post-Code system will help you, in addressing your letters correctly, legibly and thus have the benefit of overcoming language difficulties and spelling errors, thereby assisting the Postal authorities to sort your letters faster and deliver them accurately and expeditiously.

A Post-Code is also a pre-requisite for the mechanized sorting which the department proposes to introduce in the near future under its modernization programme.

All the Post Offices in the Island are assigned with this five digit Post- Code numbers of which the first digit indicates the Province and the other four digits indicate the office of destination. The customers are requested to insert this number under the office of destination at the end of the address on the envelopes.

1. The table of post-code contains

a) Post office: name of the post office,
   b) District code: district coded as in file dist-code,
   c) Post office/sub-post office: P=post office S=sub-post office
   d) Post code: 5 digit post code.

Out of the 1964 delivery post offices the codes of the post offices in the Nothern Province are not yet available (they are marked *).

2. The table of dist-code contains the codes used for the 25 districts.

3. Other excerpts from the Sri Lanka Post Code Directory

3.1 Post code for Colombo zones

Colombo 01 = 00100
      Colombo 02 = 00200
      Colombo 03 = 00300
      Colombo 04 = 00400
      Colombo 05 = 00500
      Colombo 06 = 00600
      Colombo 07 = 00700
      Colombo 08 = 00800
      Colombo 09 = 00900
      Colombo 10 = 01000
      Colombo 11 = 01100
      Colombo 12 = 01200
      Colombo 13 = 01300
      Colombo 14 = 01400
      Colombo 15 = 01500

3.2 Request

HELP YOUR POST OFFICE TO FACILITATE FASTER AND ACCURATE DELIVERY OF ALL YOUR MAIL MATTERS BY INCLUSION OF THE DELIVERY ...

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SENDER ADDRESS
   NAME OF ADDRESSEE
   HOUSE NUMBER AND STREET NAME
   POST OFFICE AND POST-CODE

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DistCode   District

   CO      Colombo            0??00 and 10...
   GQ      Gampaha            11...     ( 3 of 126 start with CO code 10???)   
   KT      Kalutara           12...

   KY      Kandy              20...
   MT      Matale             21...
   NW      Nuwaraeliya        22... (19 of  70 start with KY code 20???)  

   BC      Batticaloa         30...
   TC      Trincomalee        31...
   APR     Ampara             32...

   JA      Jaffna             40...
   MB      Mannar             41...
   MP      Mullaitivu         42...
   VA      Vavuniya           43...

   AD      Anuradhapura       50...
   PR      Polonnaruwa        51...

   KG      Kurunegala         60...
   PX      Puttalam           61...

   RN      Ratnapura          70...
   KE      Kegalle            71...

   GL      Galle              80...
   MH      Matara             81...
   HB      Hambantota         82...

   BD      Badulla            90...
   MJ      Monaragala         91... ( 4 of  58 start with RN code 70???)  

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The rest of the numbers you can easily access via official Web portal of the Sri Lanka Post @

http://www.slpost.gov.lk/